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Re: [TLS] User Defined Key Pair

"Dan Harkins" <dharkins@lounge.org> Wed, 10 July 2013 17:49 UTC

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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:49:41 -0700
From: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] User Defined Key Pair
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On Mon, June 24, 2013 11:34 am, Salz, Rich wrote:
[snip]
> If you are trying to avoid CA's, then why not just use self-signed
> certificates or similar like PGP?

  Or why not use a protocol that is already a work item of the
TLS working group:

     http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-pwd-00

  Dan.

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